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With an immune system designed to destroy invading organisms, patients receiving organ transplants often run the risk of becoming their own worst enemies...
Researchers believe the new procedure, which begins with a partial destruction of the patient’s bone marrow using a drug, may decrease organ rejection. The bone marrow gives rise to immune cells that help the body identify invaders. If the foreign marrow produces foreign cells, the study’s authors hypothesized that the body will recognize the transplant...
...meetings between parties; it should never threaten the ability of the paper to continue its work. A free and uninhibited press is needed to check elected student officials and administrations on campus. But lately, the notion that a student newspaper should be allowed to act as functionally independent organ of the student body has been assaulted. The withholding of funds for The Montclarion is chillingly reminiscent of attempts by the University of Southern California administration to regulate the Daily Trojan through personnel changes in Dec. 2006. Both college administrations and student governments should work to ensure that there...
...while the details of this particular case are appalling, and the scam is the first - or at least first to be exposed - involving foreigners from as far away as the U.S. and U.K flying in for transplants, Indians are sadly all too familiar with organ rackets. In 2007, police in southern India uncovered an illegal kidney trade involving fishermen whose jobs had been destroyed by the Indian Ocean tsunami. A massive transplant ring in Punjab was also uncovered in 2003. Police there believe at least 30 of the donors, who as in this latest case were poor, illiterate workers promised...
...India's illegal organ trade is driven in part by the incredible imbalance between supply and demand for legal organs. The Indian government banned the sale of kidneys for commercial gain in 1994; lawbreakers can be jailed for up to five years. But legal organ donations remain rare in India. The Multi Organ Harvesting Aid Network (MOHAN), a Chennai-based non-government group that promotes legal organ donation, puts donation rates in India at well under 1 per million, compared to rates of more than 20 per million in places such as Spain, the U.S. and France. The group...